New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

fwiw I did a boot loader hack a couple weekends ago to get my Mac Pro 1,1 to run Mountain Lion just fine

Safari's also done something very weird to its fonts in the location bar. They're all spidery while typing

i max out 4gb all the time

Safari's also done something very weird to its fonts in the location bar. They're all spidery while typing

Looks okay to me. Maybe it's your eyes.

you're on retina though, aren't you? Bet this is like when the iPhone 4 came out and they stopped bother checking their graphics looked OK on the 3G phone.

Yeah that's probably what it is - all the developers will have Retina ones. I figured you'd guess that anyway, so just decided to blame your eyes :)

siracusa's review is out btw

Time Machine can now back up to multiple volumes. When more than one volume is selected, Time Machine will do a full backup to each selected volume, taking turns each time it runs. I like the added protection that using a different backup program in addition to Time Machine provides. But failing that, doing two complete, separate backups to two different disks using Time Machine is almost as good.

:)

Apple's whole-disk encryption system introduced in Lion has been a great success. I've been using it for a year now without any problems and with excellent performance compared to the third-party disk encryption solution I was using with Snow Leopard.

Lion made encrypting the boot drive easy, but encrypting an arbitrary volume often required a trip to the command line. Mountain Lion remedies that situation. Just right-click any volume in the Finder and select the "Encrypt" command. You'll be prompted to enter a password and an optional hint, then encryption will begin in the background.

:))

not in a rush to upgrade though. cloud for document storage sounds great but confuses me tbqh.

Time Machine multiple volumes is one of those why-the-fuck-has-it-taken-so-long updates that the fannies will cream their jocks over like it's a delightful new concept

yes. i am glad steve jobs is dead.

i wish you could put a cap on the size of your time machine w/o having to split a separate vol

you can. you put it on a disk image.

it's kind of fiddly tho. let me know if you're keen and i'll dig up some instructions.

whoa!
do tell!

Should I upgrade from 10.6 to 10.8?

s1ocki do you know what the terminal is?

god no xp

Yes. Tom hanks?

kind of.

but more

MAC=$(ifconfig en0 | perl -ne 's/.*ether (\w+:\w+:\w+:\w+:\w+:\w+).*/$1/ && s/://g && print;')
SBNAME=$(hostname)_$MAC.sparsebundle
hdiutil create -fs HFS+J -size 350g -type SPARSEBUNDLE -volname "Time Machine Backup" $SBNAME

change 350g to whatever you want the maximum size to be. obviously this needs to be smaller than the disk. then...

chflags uchg $SBNAME/Info.*
chflags nouchg $SBNAME/Info.*
mv $SBNAME /Volumes/MYEXTERNALDRIVE_CHANGETHIS

obv. change MYEXTERNALDRIVE_CHANGETHIS to whatever your external drive is called

then open time machine preferences and choose MYEXTERNALDRIVE_CHANGETHIS as the time machine disk (*not* Time Machine Backups).

party time amirite

these instructions are good for 10.7. they kind of work on 10.6, although not really because you have to manually run time machine each time you want to take a snapshot. i don't know if they work at all on 10.8.

it gets more complicated if (1) you want to encrypt the backup or (2) you want don't want to start a time machine from scratch, but want to copy the history you already have one your old disk over.

ok thanks!!

i might just get rid of my time machine backup on my newish drive (~1 month) and reformat with a 1gb partition for it so it doesnt creep all over the entire drive (which is 3gb)

yeah actually the easy way is just to partition

thinking about it, the only reason i go through that v complicated procedure is so that i can encrypt the backup and i always have as much free space as possible on the external drive.

if you partition a 2gb drive in half, 1gb is always unavailable to store for other stuff, because TM will delete it next time the backup runs. the disk image method is nice because the disk image grows. it's like a partition which gets bigger.

so if you're not bothered about that then just partition

I've always been afraid to use Filevault. Maybe it had trouble when it came out? Is this something I should use on my laptop that gets a lot of travel?

apparently it's rock solid now, so yeah i guess. i am leery of converting tho and feel like i should start from scratch.

"apparently" = according to siracusa

you use some other encryption then?

if you don't have a time machine and an ipad and you don't want to like integrate your activity monitor w/ facebook and twitter is there any reason to do this update?

i encrypt the backup because it is often somewhere i am not, but i don't encrypt the laptop itsefl xp

if you use ical, mail etc. a lot then you might like the new calender, notes, mail, etc. stuff

and it's much improved under the hood

but for day to day, not a lot

Notifications are kinda nice if you're on the computer a lot.

is the under-the-hood stuff going to have any impact on a core 2 duo machine is what i wonder, still not sure about lion

and yeah i use ical and mail all the damn time ... did i hear right that apple bought sparrow and fantastical?

oh ok, encrypting a backup, yes I could do that

no it's under the hood from the POV of security, developers, etc. it's not going to be significantly faster for the user

ah

mountain lion seems zippy (esp safari 6) & notifications are nice

apple employees get 250$ fuckbucks off a new ipad! thusly shall I approve the rental application of my new tenant who worketh there and have security deposit paid in kind with ipaddery!

stet can you please integrate ilx bookmarks w/notification centre

^^ not impossible actually

http://www.w3.org/TR/notifications/

if you partition a 2gb drive in half, 1gb is always unavailable to store for other stuff, because TM will delete it next time the backup runs. the disk image method is nice because the disk image grows. it's like a partition which gets bigger.

so if you're not bothered about that then just partition

― caek, Thursday, July 26, 2012 2:56 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

actually my whole point is i DONT want it to grow past a certain size

yeah, the complicated thing i descriped takes up the minimum space possible for the amount of data (unlike a partition), and has a maximum size (like a parition)

it's the *sparse* in sparse disk image that means it takes up the minimum space poss. like you create a 1gb sparse disk image but until you actually put any files on it, the disk image is like 50mb or something. and the last steps in the instructions i pasted ensure that it never gets enlarged bigger than 1gb.

and yeah i use ical and mail all the damn time ... did i hear right that apple bought sparrow and fantastical?

Google bought out Sparrow

xp

hmm sparrow was pretty sweet but eventually turned out to be too much work

I've always been afraid to use Filevault. Maybe it had trouble when it came out? Is this something I should use on my laptop that gets a lot of travel?

― Euler, Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:03 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

apparently it's rock solid now, so yeah i guess. i am leery of converting tho and feel like i should start from scratch.

― caek, Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:07 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just as a data point w.r.t. FileVault, I've been encrypting since 10.7.2 and it's been solid ever since.

filevault fucked up my friend's mac back in 05, it was sad

Yah, old FileVault was a mess. FileVault 2 (as Apple is calling it now) is very stable, but if you have any out-of-normal configurations you might have an issue. This guide is a good start: https://www.macworld.com/article/1162999/complete_guide_to_filevault_2_in_lion.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/28/technology/apple-is-said-to-discuss-an-investment-in-twitter.html?_r=1&hp

^^ reckons Apple wants to buy a stake in Twittwe

Twitter

haha for a sec i was like is that some 3rd party client